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1) The help
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1209
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert
Description
"Michael Roemer's groundbreaking first feature, sensitively shot by his close collaborator Robert M. Young, is a still-resonant expression of humanity in the face of virulent prejudice. Made at the height of the civil rights movement, Nothing But A Man reveals the toll of systemic racism through its honest portrait of a southern Black railroad worker confronting the daily challenges of discrimination and economic precarity, as he attempts to settle...
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